While Apple didn’t unveil any new hardware at its WWDC 2018 keynote, the rumor mill currently has it that the iPhone X Plus, which is expected later this year, will feature a 6.5-inch OLED screen, making it about as big as the current iPhone 8 Plus.
Apple started testing iOS 12 builds in the wild as recently as late February, when Google Analytics first picked up visits from devices running iOS 12. The number of visits increased as June approached. It’s likely that Apple engineers tested early iOS 12 builds on various devices well ahead of the WWDC event. And while you can safely test iOS 12 out in the wild if you’re an Apple engineer since regular users will not immediately spot it, you can’t always fool analytics programs.
Even if some of those were fake iOS 12 devices, a good number of those visits still came from devices that you can quickly identify as iPhones and iPads checking in from Apple. Looking at screen resolution alone, one could easily identify visits from iPhone X, iPhone 8/7/6sPlus/6s/6Plus/6, iPhone 8Plus/7Plus, 12.9-inch iPad Pro, 10.5-inch iPad Pro, iPhone SE, and — finally — iPhone X Plus
The iPhone X Plus itself is said to be distinct in that it’s currently running iOS 12 on a 496 x 896 screen resolution, which is not available on any current iPhone or iPad.
The resolution is measured in points, not peels and the new resolution matches the width of the iPhone 8 Plus and 7 Plus in points (414), but the height is significantly bigger, 896 for the iPhone X Plus compared to 736 for the others.
Similarly, the iPhone X has the same width in points as the iPhone 8. It’s only the height that’s different.
The same thing will apparently happen to the iPhone X Plus. The display will keep the width of the latest Plus model in Pixels, but the height will increase. The iPhone X’s aspect ratio is 2.165 (812 divided by 375). The iPhone X Plus is also rumored to have the same exact aspect ratio if that 414 x 896 point resolution is accurate.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.